In December 03 the Heppenheimer band "Cast Away" was found out of the rather fun-project-like Band "Deadnight Warrior" who originated from the band "Extinction". After having changed the name we decided to record a Cast Away promo for followers, promoters and so on. For this reason we re-recorded the more "serious" songs from "Deadnight Warrior".
From this on we had several gigs all over Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands as support to, among others, "Goddess of Desire" (NL), "Stormwarrior" (G), "Dark Age" (D), "Tyrant Eyes" (D) and "Desperation" (B).
On several Festival we were able to raise enthusiasm with our songs and our stage-acting (among others "Rockwochende Duderstadt", "X-Mas-Metal-Meeting" and "Metal-Machine-Festival") (take a look at Livereviews on our website!).
In December 05 we finished work on our first self-titled album for which we got very positive reactions from the press (Take a look at reviews in the discography section on our website!).
In June 07 Dirk Mattheis (guitar) jumped on our "Blues"-Train because its better to kick ass live with eight legs than with six.
With our latest album "Mind Domination" which will be released Dezember 08 we're going to take our developing of our own style to a higher level. Our own style resulting out of an mixture of heavy-, thrash and other metal styles but as well from "non-metal"-styles (such as old "New Model Army") plus an individual style of playing.
Now what the hell do you sound like?
Cast Away is the synthese of both sides of Heavy Metal (old school and "modern") without sounding like everybody else who is also claiming this fusion...
We are the New Wave of Bergstraesser Heavy Metal!
Check it out yourself...